naravara

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by naravara 7y ago
>We shouldn't expect the companies to be "fair&transparent", especially given the documented evidence that it's unprofitable. It's really the job of the governments to impose fairness rules. E.g. in Europe yo
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by naravara 7y ago
>The MacBook doesn't need less ports, it doesn't need to be thinner. This is especially true now that they're trying to position the iPad as a serious "work" machine. If it hasn't crossed this threshold alre
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by naravara 7y ago
>There is something extremely wrong with the rate of innovation, productivity growth, the division of labor and capital, and the distribution of profits between labor and capital in developed countries today, and it's unsustainable.
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by naravara 7y ago
If you want to be durable in a downturn you need resilient or countercyclical industries leasing from you. If they had a bunch of boring utility companies and collections agencies leasing from them then we might be onto something.
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by naravara 7y ago
So we're back to barter again, because you're going to need to negotiate value independently for each and every traded good if you don't have an agreed upon unit of accounting (i.e. defined currency).
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by naravara 7y ago
Who decides what "value" is or what things should be values at? The whole point of money is to make unspecified commitments for future production. If you want direct exchange of value then you're bartering. The only reason we
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by naravara 7y ago
I can’t be the only one disappointed in this. Making cars at scale up to modern standards is really hard. Making great software is also really hard. I have serious doubts as to whether a company that does the former can have the culture, ma
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by naravara 7y ago
What’s “real” money? We going back to trading livestock? You realize even hard specie only has value because of government fiat declaring that it’s appropriate to use for public debts right?
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by naravara 7y ago
Then stop buying things from overseas. But if you're trying to use this as an excuse to tell yourself that everyone individually driving everywhere is fine for the environment you're engaging in motivated reasoning.
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by naravara 7y ago
>Is this like saying Italian, French, Spanish are pretty much the same because they are Romamtic languages? Or English and German are interchangable, because English is a Germanic language? It really varies. Some languages, like Hindi, G
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by naravara 7y ago
Those are language families. Not languages.
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by naravara 7y ago
>s to your second point—no government today is as large in scope as say Rome, the British Empire, the Persian empire, etc. Utter hogwash. In terms of scale and intensiveness if state powers even small nations can easily outstrip the bure
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by naravara 7y ago
Giant boats and trucks moving things in bulk is, pound for pound, way more efficient than every single person riding a 2 ton machine to move things around.
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by naravara 7y ago
>That's to say, I think you're absolutely right - people want to move to these places cause they perceive them as little Brooklyns or little Seattles. I think people just want to be able to afford a mortgage without giving up s
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by naravara 7y ago
The problem is WeWork would end up being just one of a ton of possible vendors who do this. The only thing that's hard to replicate about that business model is the up-front cost of acquiring the properties, but if it turns out to be a
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by naravara 7y ago
If Theranos has taught us anything it should be that the "adults in the room" very frequently are not good judges of anything.
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by naravara 7y ago
Yeah this is the argument I don't get. Tons of companies just give employees who travel a per diem for travel expenses. A per diem for remote work expenses to spend on whatever shared office space you want is not that hard. Filing expe
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by naravara 7y ago
>I grew up on Arthur, Mr Rogers, and Sesame Street. It’s certainly possible to have quality noncommercial children’s programming. All of those were products of PBS. So it seems like if we want it to be possible it needs to be primarily f
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by naravara 7y ago
>In 10 years people will be looking back at this in shock that it happened and there will be downstream affects on the kids exposed to it. It's literally programming weird stuff into the psyche of these young children. ~20 years ago
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by naravara 7y ago
>But almost any dedicated camera that isn't down in the complete crap price range will blow a cell phone out of the water, for two major reasons. I suspect this is probably why you're seeing the sales numbers drop too. The big
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by naravara 7y ago
Feedbin does along participating readers that work with its API. But it’s a $5/month subscription fee.
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by naravara 7y ago
Some people don’t care about the newest, shiny thing. They just want to buy the best thing they like when they’re in the market for it and then use it until it needs replacing.
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by naravara 7y ago
>At least this design for a bicycle lift would never be allowed in the US. It's pretty tricky, the first couple of times people usually fall off. Isn’t that all literally true of riding a bike too?
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by naravara 7y ago
There’s an even easier way than a bus: https://www.boredpanda.com/bicycle-escalator-cyclocable-tron... Bike escalators!
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by naravara 7y ago
Do fish regrow their eggs over time or is like, once harvested they're barren for life kind of deal? And if so, do they tag them to keep track?
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by naravara 7y ago
Some cultures, like Tibetans and Zoroastrians, practice “sky burial” where they literally leave the bodies out for carrion, sometimes even cutting it to pieces to make it easier for the vultures to get at. So our ideas about what’s respectf
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by naravara 7y ago
>Maybe I didn’t do as well as I thought I did on the tech, or maybe Palantir recruiting is selecting for people who don’t ask questions. My money is on the latter. In "Winners Take All" Anand Giridharadas has a really good sent
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by naravara 7y ago
It's not just Google. I've had helpdesk tickets with multiple services automatically assume I'm on mobile if I mention something doesn't work in Safari. I will even say "Safari on Mac OS 10.xx" and they will st
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by naravara 7y ago
Sure. Let's make meth available to kids too while we're at it. Why expect social or moral responsibility from people at all?
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by naravara 7y ago
We can say, however, that there is something wrong with making vehicles that are inherently unsafe when on public roads. That's more in line with making products to foster addiction or compel people to behave in ways that are against t

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